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SAI International School
Session 2025-26
CLASS-IX
Economics- Ch-1- Story Of Village Palampur
Home Assignment
SUB-TOPIC- 5
Subtopics: Non-Farm activities in Palampur

1 The activities such as small manufacturing, transport, shopkeeping are referred to as
(a) Non-economic activities
(b) Non-farming activities
(c) Non-traditional activities
(d) Non-market activities
2 At present how many people were engaged in manufacturing in Palampur
a) Less than 40 people
b) 50 people
c) Less than 50 people
d) 40 people
3 Kishora is a farm labourer. Like other such labourers, Kishora found it difficult to meet his
family’s needs from the wages that he received. A few years back Kishora took a loan from
the bank. This was under a government programme which was giving cheap loans to poor
landless households. Kishora bought a buffalo with this money. He now sells the buffalo’s
milk.

What is Kishora’s fixed capital?
a) Loan from the bank
b) Wages
c) Buffalo
d) Government Programme
4 In the question given below, There are two statements marked as Assertion(A) and
Reason(R).Read the statements and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A): Along with farming small farmers engage in small-scale manufacturing in
villages
Reason(R): small farmers need to supplement their income for their sustenance (a) Both A
and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is correct but R is wrong
(d)A is wrong but R is correct
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